Bottle, jar, and other similar vessel



June 14, 1932. F L. DARUNG 1,863,102

BOTTLE, JAR, AND OTHER SIMILAR VESSEL Original Filed Oct. 25, 1928 ATTORNEY Patented June 14, 1932 UNITED STATES Il. DARLING, 0F LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA BOTTLE, JAR, AND OTHER SIMILAR VESSEL Original application filed October 25, 192.8, Serial No. 315,017. Divided and this application led October 31, 1928. Serial No. 316,240.

My invention relates to bottles and jars employing crimped or crown type caps and the resent invention particularly has for its object to provide a bottle or jar of a peculiar construction embodying provisions for retaining a cap remover in place adjacent the mouth of the vessel so that when the vessel is passed through the capping machines -the cap removers will not interfere with the proper operation of capping the vessels.

More specifically the present application has for its purpose the covering of the finish of a vessel used in connection with cap rem'overs of the kind disclosed in my Letters Patent No. 1,664,595, issued April 3, 1928, and in my application for Letters Patent filed August 20, 1928, Serial No. 300,899.

In this application I make no claim to the remover per se or in combination with the vessel, the claims of the present application being confined solely to the construction of the vessel and particularly that portion of the vessel which is adapted to receive and hold the removers.

Other objects will in part be obvious and in part be pointed out hereinafter.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends, my invention consists in the novel details of construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described and then specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a milk bottle which employs a crown cap as a closure, a remover being shown in place.

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the bottle, the remover being shown in place and the cap being shown in place in full lines, the dotted lines indicating the use of the remover for the purpose of lifting off the cap.

Figure 8 is a perspective view of the neck portion of the bottle shown in Figurel with the remover omitted.

Figure 4 is a detail perspective view of the remover which is used in connection with the bottles constituting my invention.

' Figure 5 is a plan view of the mouth of a bottle neck showing another embodiment of the invention.

Figure 6 is a cross section on the line 6 6 of Figure 5.

Figure 7 is a detail elevation of the form of remover employed when the bottle finish as shown in Figures 5 and 6 is used.

Flgure 8 isa detail elevation of another modification of my invention, a remover be ing shown in place.

Figure 9 is a detail section on the line 9 9 of Figure 8.

Fi ure 10 is a detail section of a straight side jar (without neck) embodying my invention, a remover being shown.

In the accompanying drawing which illustrates several embodiments of my invention and in which like numerals and letters of reference indicate like parts in all of the figures, 1 represents a wide mouth vessel such as a milk bottle, a jug or jar, so formed as to be closable by means of a crown or crimped cap of well known construction.

In order that the capping of the bottle by automatic machinery may be facilitated and in order that the cost of, manufacture and assembly of parts may be reduced to a minimum, I have designed a special finish .for the bottles, jars or other vessels whereby they are so constructed that they will retain thc cap remover in place while the bottles are passed through the capping machine.

As examples of my present invention I refer now to Figures 1 to 4 inclusive from which it will be observed that the vessel at the mouth ring is vertically grooved as at 3 3 and indented as at 2 2 to receive the hook end 5 5 of a remover 4.

Where the bottle or other vessel is provided with a bulge 1m adjacent the mouth ring 1?/ the bulge part is also grooved at 3.0: to align with the grooves 3 in the mouth ring so that the remover Will lie in these grooves The grooves 3 3@ may be made slightly undercut so that the natural springy tendency of the remover to retract and cause it to grip the bottle will thus assist in retaining it in position.

In passing the vessels through automatic capping machines the removers 4 are -placed in position by any suitable mechanlsm or by hand and remain supported on the vesse1 by their own weight augmented by their own gripping action so that when the capper o crates it will place the cap 7 over the vesse s mouth and press the skirt 8 into place, thereby catching, securing, and/or holdmg the remover lirmly in place ready for use.

The material and specific form of the remover 4 may vary greatly and constitutes no part of the present applicatlon. It may have a slight outward curve at 1ts lower end. 6 to serve as a finger envagement.

In Figures 5 to? inclusive I have shown another embodiment of my present invention. In this embodiment the mouth rim 10 of the bottle neck has a transverse groove 11 in its top face and at either end there are vertical grooves 12 which pass downwardly through the bulge 10m of the bottle or other vessel 10 and serve to receive the opposing ends 14 of the remover 13 used in connection with this particular form of bottle linish.

Instead of constructing the bottle grooves as indicated in Figures 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 the transverse groove 11a; may be made in the edge of the mouth rim 10g and this transverse groove 11m may be made in two sections as shown in Figure 8, each section communicating with a vertical groove 12m in the bulge 123/ of the bottle shown in Figures 8 and 9. With this embodiment of the invention the remover 15 may have its ends 16 bent away from each other instead of toward each other as in Figure 7.

Where the vessel 17 is a straight side vessel having no bulge adjacent the mouth rim or bead 18 the bead may be constructed with the grooves 19 corresponding to the grooves 11m in Figure 8 and short vertical grooves 20 corresponding to the upper portion of the grooves 12a: in Figure 8 where they merge with the grooves 11m. In this embodiment of the invention, shown in Figure 10, a remover constructed either as shown in Figure 7 or as shown in Figure 8 may be employed.

If desired and if-the vessel be a straight side vessel the mouth rim may be formed as shown in Figure 1 and the remover 4 shown in Figure 4 may be used if desired.

Other modifications of my present invention to suit modifications in the removers used may also be made without .departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope ofthe appended claims. y

This application is a division of application Serial No. 315,017, Oct. 25, 1928, which has issued into United States Patent No. 1,777,077, and is directed to the subject matter shown in Figures 5, 6 and 7 of the drawing of said patent.

What I claim is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a vessel having a mouth, and a pair of seats formed by a continuous transverse recess extendin across the top face of the vessel and space from said mouth for receiving a. cap remover. 2. As a. new article of manufacture, a. vessel having a mouth,'and a pair of seats formed by a continuous transverse recess extending across the top face of the vessel and spaced from said mouth and vertical recesses in the side of the vessel communicating with said transverse recess for receiving a cap remover.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a vessel having a mouth with a rim or bead, a transverse recess extending across the top face of the mouth rim but spaced from the mouth and vertical recesses formed in the mouth rim and communicating wit-h said transverse recess for receiving spaced por-- tions of a cap remover.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a vessel having a mouth with a rim or bead, a transverse recess extending across the top face of the mouth rim but spaced from the mouth, vertical recesses formed in the mouth rim and communicating with said transverse recess, and recesses formed in the side of the Vessel adjacent the mouth rim, said recesses being adapted to receive spaced portions of a cap remover.

FRANK L. DARLING. 

